- Read “Life’s Stories” by Julie Beck As always, please post 3-5 legible pages of your annotations. (Make ’em count!) Blog #8: (200-300 words) Julie Beck covers a lot of ground as she explores narrative’s potentially powerful influence on our lives. Identify at least three notable assertions or other moments in Beck’s text that caused you to sit up straighter and take note. Explain what exactly caught your eye. Did you react as a believer or doubter? Did you build a connection between the text and the world or the text and your self?
- “life is incredibly complex, there are lots of things going on in our environment and in our lives at all times, and in order to hold onto our experience, we need to make meaning out of it,”
I think that was one of the best quote she said in her story, and I really liked it, and I do a agree with it. What was she meaning in this quote is that stories is giving us meaning and make us understand people life and what they dealt with. And she was meaning that a story life are large part of our life and we should know that.
- “A life story is written in chalk, not ink, and it can be changed.”
I liked this quote so much because is so true we can change our life by our hand, and we can make it to be better and better. I know we cannot change something we did wrong in our life in the past, but we still can make it better and tell how we messed up before so other people can have chance to make their life right. I agree with this quote so much.
- “As college literature class discussion sections taught me, you can see anything as a metaphor if you try hard enough.”
I chose this quote because it was related to the topic that we just finished last week. Metaphor is very important in our life and we have to use them in the right way. I know this article is not related to metaphor, but in the Life Stories she was discusses metaphors and explains their impotence to her topic. I agree with this quote because metaphors are powerful and versatile.
I really loved this article because it held a lot of good things and meaning things that everyone will wants to do. When I was reading this article, I got really engaged to it.
I actually had a lot of the same quotes/observations in my blog post, so I definitely agree with your observations and explanations. I also really loved this article because it was so dense in information, and it was really inspiring. In this post, you should various places where you connected to the text and connected the text to the world. It shows that you were really engaged and paid close attention to the article. I think that you should upload photos of your annotations so readers can see the first important step of reading this article.